How Do You Green Solutions Go Green Shopping Bags From Plastic Tarps?
Go Green is a recurring theme to bring conscientiousness back to the way we interact with our environment. After years of producing excess waste, we are now learning, or re-learning, green solutions for how to use common household items in new and exciting ways. How about those blue and green tarps? We can go green by cutting shopping bags from them that we can use over and over again. They are easy to clean, durable, and fairly inexpensive to make. Lay out your tarp and cut away the folded edge from all sides. This will be reused as your handles–go green with green solutions. Next, fold your tarp over by 25 inches, and then cut along the top, then along the side at 25 inches. this should yield a 25 x 50 inch piece of tarp. Fold in half so that you the folded piece measures 25 x 25 inches, and then sew along the two edges that are perpendicular to your fold. This will make the body of your go green bag. Next, take one bottom corner of your bag and open it to form a triangle corner. Pi
